I saw 'Won't You be My Neighbor' on Thursday, and this scene is in it, but before that something I hadn't seen: Clips of the previous 2 days of testimony, which

I saw 'Won't You be My Neighbor' on Thursday, and this scene is in it, but before that something I hadn't seen: Clips of the previous 2 days of testimony, which were NOT going well for PBS. The senator holding the hearings was, I believe, legitimately interested in getting to the core of the issue and had VERY little tolerance for weak arguments or filler. That's why, at the beginning, Fred is asking him to read the written statement: The senator had banned people from just reading pre-written statements. It also adds so much more weight to the Senetor's response at the end, knowing that Fred wasn't being rushed in for a quick decision, but the last in many many hours of testimony that was not going well for PBS.